Titles

• Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Co-Director, Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI), Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovawtion

Biography

Claudia Sadowski-Smith specializes in late 20th and 21st century multiethnic US literatures, immigration studies, border studies, and fiction of the US Southwest. She is the author of The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States (New York U. Press, 2018), which places post-USSR migration in dialogue with discussions about the racialization of contemporary US immigrants under neoliberalism, and Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States (U. of Virginia Press, 2008), which explores multiethnic cultural productions about the US borders with Canada and Mexico. In addition, Sadowski-Smith is the editor of Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders (Palgrave, 2002) and of two special journal issues--on postsocialist US literatures and on comparative border studies. She has published articles on such subjects as reality TV, transnational adoption, studies of the US-Mexico and US-Canada borders, and the internationalization of US American studies. From 2014 to 2017, Sadowski-Smith served as the Principal Investigator for a US State Department-funded cooperation between ASU and Kinnaird College, Pakistan, which focused on globalizing the research and teaching of US literature